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| “ | He doesn't want us to cut through our chains. He wants us to cut through our feet... | „ |
| ~ Gordon about Jigsaw's game. |
| “ | Bravo! Hmm, to be able to sustain such a traumatic final chapter and uh... yet find the positive in that grizzly act. It's a remarkable feat, indeed. Remarkable... if not a little perverse. I'm sure I speak for everyone here, when I say... how grateful we are... to be a part of your... promotional DVD. | „ |
| ~ Lawrence mocking Bobby Dagen. |
| “ | I don't think so. | „ |
| ~ Gordon to Mark Hoffman. |
Doctor Lawrence Gordon is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Adam Stanheight) in the 2004 horror film Saw and a major character in its 2010 sequel Saw 3D.
He was portrayed by Cary Elwes, who also played Donald Curtis in the English dub of Porco Rosso, William Boone in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Dr. Jonas Miller in Twister, Casanova in Kiss the Girls, Paxton Powers in Batman Beyond, Sir Edgar in Ella Enchanted, Ted Bundy in The Riverman, Aquaman in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Larry Kline in Stranger Things, Denlinger in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning and Pistol Pete Whipple in Knuckles.
Biography[]
Lawrence Gordon is a doctor who is targeted by The Jigsaw Killer and imprisoned in a bathroom and chained up alongside a photographer named Adam Stanheight. Unknown to Gordon at the time, Adam had been hired to take photos of him. Not long after their imprisonment, Gordon deduces the Jigsaw Killer is behind it and reveals to Adam that he was once a suspect in the case, and harassed by the lead detective David Tapp. Gordon and Adam find a tape recording made for each of them, which their goal is to survive the bathroom although only one can survive. Gordon finds out that Jigsaw has his wife Alison and daughter Diana captive, and that they will die at 6am if he fails his game.
Gordon eventually discovers Adam's deception, and that his employer is none other than Tapp, who went off the deep end when his partner Sing was killed when trying to capture Jigsaw. Tapp deluded himself into still thinking Gordon was responsible, and made it his life's work to monitor him. Through Adam's photos (which were planted in the bathroom by Jigsaw), Gordon discovers his hospital orderly Zep Hindle at his house, revealing him as Alison and Diana's kidnapper and possibly identifying him as the Jigsaw Killer. Before Gordon can do anything else (aside from issuing friends at a camera monitoring them), him and Adam realise their time is up. In desperation, Gordon cuts off his foot in order to release himself from his chain, and uses a gun provided to shoot Adam in the chest, presumably killing him. Zepp turns up at the bathroom shortly after, and believing Zepp killed his family makes a futile attempt to shoot him with an empty gun. Before Zepp can finish off Gordon with a bullet, Adam springs to life and overcomes Zepp and beats him to death with a toilet lid.
Losing blood, Gordon tells Adam that he will go to get help, and promises to send someone back to get him. He crawls away, leaving an anguished Adam behind. After Gordon's departure, a corpse in the room is revealed to be alive and actually the identity of the Jigsaw Killer (Gordon's patient John Kramer), who had been observing them the entire time. Due to Adam's failure John departs the bathroom and imprisons Adam inside, telling him its "Game Over".
Shortly after escaping the bathroom, Gordon uses a hot steam pipe to cauterize the stump on his leg, although the pain causes him to pass out. He is discovered by Kramer who brings him back and congratulates Gordon on surviving. After nursing Gordon back to health over the course of several weeks, Kramer releases Gordon to resume his life.
Years later Gordon began attending a Jigsaw Survivor Group, and on one occasion observed Bobby Dagen, an alleged survivor he profited from his survival by writing a book and gaining publicity. Seeing through his façade, Gordon mockingly congratulates Dagen in front of everyone else.
Gordon is revealed later to have been a secret apprentice to the now late John Kramer, and had assisted in several of his games, making Gordon Kramer's most trusted ally. When Kramer's successor Mark Hoffman killed Kramer's ex-wife Jill Tuck, Gordon followed the orders of a video message left by Kramer in order to dispose of Hoffman. Gordon, along with two mysterious pig-head masked allies, capture Hoffman outside his hideout and Gordon brings him back to the bathroom where he himself had to survive his game years before. He chains Hoffman up, and removes any tools Hoffman could use to escape. Hoffman awakens, and shouts profanities at Gordon as well as threats. Gordon ignores Hoffman and departs the bathroom, and glances at his now rotten foot still chained up. He switches off the lights, informs Hoffman it is "Game Over", before sealing him away inside forever.
Trivia[]
- Following the release of Saw II, it was often speculated that Gordon was Jigsaw's secret accomplice. This came to fruition in the (then intended finale) seventh film Saw 3D.
- Gordon was intended to appear in the video game adaptation Saw in 2009, in which he would have been involved in a boss fight and revealed to be the mysterious Pighead who targeted protagonist David Tapp throughout the game. But this was cut at the request of Lionsgate due to them wanting to include Gordon in Saw 3D the following year. Despite his absence from the game, he is mentioned in hospital files that expands on Gordon's backstory.
- Unlike Amanda Young, Mark Hoffman and Logan Nelson, Gordon didn't appear to make any attempt at being John's successor. By the events of Jigsaw (which takes place a decade following Saw 3D), there has been no further Jigsaw related deaths, presumably meaning Gordon resumed a normal life after getting rid of Hoffman at the late John's request.
- Dr. Gordon claiming that Jigsaw is technically not a murderer and never killed anyone (despite the law saying otherwise) could be unintentional foreshadowing to Gordon joining his cause later on.
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